Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPERI just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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